The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-19
GENERAL RAILWAY NEWS.
Matters of Money and Managemen
About Various Lines.


The Wadesboro and Winnsboro Railroad
Company has been organized to build line
from Wadesboro, n c., to Winnsboro, s. G.
The Atlanta and Hawkinsville Railroad
Company have contracted with the Rhode
Island Locomotive Works for locomotives.
They will weigh $4,000 pounds.
Competent judges who have seen the
work pronounce the Sheffield and Birming-
ham railroad not excelled by any in the
South. The bridge work and ballasting are
said to be especially fine.
The Birmingham Age says: "The Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, in view of the
great increase of traffic on their line, have
contracted for immediate construction for
twenty-one locomotives and 800 cars.
Forty-fve railroad men were examined
in Birmingham, Saturday Not one Of them
proved color blind So far, among all those
examined seventeen were found who could
not distinguish colors sufficiently to obtain
certificates.
The general offices Of the Eufaula and
Western railroad of Alabama have been
moved to Gainesville from Cedartown.
General Manager POstell, of this road, is
now in New York arranging to commence
the work of broadening the gauge of his
road to Cedartown within the next sixty
days.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has affirmed
the constitutionality of the act of the last
Legislature reducing railway passenger fares
to &c. per mile. Arkansas is a thinly settled
State and its inhabitants are not much given
to travel nor to the patronage OF railways
in other respects, as the number OF railway
foreclosure sales indicates. The new law
will place a serious problem before the roads,
and it will remain to be seen whether the
increase of travel will to any extent make
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Some two months ago temporary in
junction was granted r. w. Witherow, of
Leeds, in the Birmingham City Court, re-
straining the Columbus and Western Rail
way Company from laying track on the
street i'll front of his property. Upon
hearing Saturday Judge Sharp denied a
motion to dissolve the injunction, where
upon an appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court. The question involved is of prop
erty owners rights to damages in this situa-
ton, seems to be a new one in the law of
that State, and naturally is an interesting
one to the lawyers.
Maj. j. A. A. West, General Manager of
the Birmingham and Atlantic, had a long
conference yesterday morning with Col
Fleming and MAJ. Owens, of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad, with regard
to making an arrangement by which their
road would receive and ship his iron, bridges
and railroad material, the Short Line to
use its own locomotives and cars in trans
porting its material to its junction with the
Savannah, Florida and Western. The ample
wharfage and domain of the Savannah,
Florida and Western gives facilities for han
ding, not only the construction material,
but the entire tonnage of the Birmingham
and Atlantic when their business is fully
established.
Eufaula (Ala) Mail: There was a meet
ing on Monday last in this city of the direc-
tors of the Eufaula and ST. Andrews Bay
Railroad Company. The profiles and maps
of the road, as furnished by the surveyors,
were laid before the meeting and fully dis
cussed, and the Board of Directors then in
structed the President to take the profiles
and maps and proceed at once to New York,
and negotiate with capitalists for sufficient
funds to build and equip the road from Eu-
faula to st. Andrews Bay. That Maj.
Reeves will succeed in placing the bonds of
the road for the amount of money required,
is confidently hoped and expected, and if he
does so succeed then of course the building
of the road becomes an assured fact and
the work of construction will begin forth
with.
The three COS" will build the Georgia and
Carolina Midland to Augusta. This is what
the chief engineer and principal attorney
both say, or what they said to one of the
two engineers sent to Augusta to go over
the route from there to Newberry, lowering
the grade for standard gauge purposes and
changing the route in one Or two sections
between Augusta and Edgefeld. The engin-
GERS start out over the line to-day. They are
Messrs. Butler and Whitner, of the regular
corps of engineers of the three C's company
The engineers will complete their work ON
the line between Augusta and Newberry by
the time that an extension is located in the
direction of Yorkville and Gaffny City
Both places want the road, and it will be
built straight to Augusta and connect, when
completed at that point with Charleston
over the South Carolina railroad